Killington, VT

 This is the view that greets us in the morning in our campsite at Gifford Woods State Park.  We don’t fit in a lot of state park campgrounds so we are delighted when we can enjoy such a beautiful place while in our rig.

The grey skies of the past few days continued here but did not keep us from enjoying this lovely area.  To observe the fall holidays, Killington is holding a Haystack Festival.  We followed the map searching for these playful creations.  Each creature had an appropriate question on a stake nearby.  We were given an answer sheet to respond to the questions to turn in after seeing the displays.  Hopefully, we will win a prize for our correct answers.   Questions included What are cooked snails called? 

What are baby raccoons called?

and What is the most common bear in the US?

On our way home we stopped at Clear Lake Furniture where Jerry looked longingly at all the wonderful tools used to make their fine furniture.   Anna Lee was quick to point out how clean the shop was.

Back in 1890 John Coolidge opened a cheese shop.  He was the father of Calvin Coolidge and his birthplace and homestead are near the present day factory site.  Both the house and the shop are now part of the Coolidge National Historic Site (closed due to the mess in Washington so no pictures) but the cheese shop was open.

Day Two

On our second day we drove the scenic byways to New Hampshire and back.  Though the color was lovely and the sky blue, our eyes enjoyed more than our cameras captured.  We stopped to take pictures of this covered bridge and learned it is a replacement for one destroyed in Hurricane Irene. 

After lunch at the Queechee Diner we took a walk along the river.  Jerry has a souvenir of our last visit here, a surgery scar on his knee injured in a long step out of the RV (caused by his wife).  This time he enjoyed the walk much more.

We followed the line of cars cutting off the road to photograph the second longest covered bridge in Vermont.  Taftsville Bridge was built in 1836 at a cost of $1800.00.

Our reward for a day filled with colorful foliage was a cup of ice cream, oreo mint for her and Vermont maple walnut for him.  The shop was literally a dive, down steep stairs, but earned its claim for great ice cream.